PSY 393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heritability, Sensation Seeking, Shy People
14 Mar 2017
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Personality: characteristic patterns of: cognition, affect (emotion), behavior (overt actions), patterns (environment & biology) Personality: the underlying causes within the person of individual behavior and experience: the study of individuals. Theories: a good personality theory will discuss: environmental and social context (e. g. , culture, work, life stressors, biology (e. g. , temperament, cognitive factors, learning history, motivation, coping and defense. Where do personality theories come from: deductive approach. Inductive approach: concepts borrowed from other disciplines, combination (most theories utilize all of these) Scientific method: systematic observation used to, create & test theories, theory hypotheses, hypotheses operationalization (methods, methods data collection and analysis, analyses theory reformulation. Correlational research: keyword = association, correlation coefficient (r): +1. 0 (perfect positive association: 0 = no association, advantages, useful when experimentation is impractical, unethical. Justify experimentation: can show theory driven associations, provide evidence contrary to theory, disadvantage: causal relationships cannot be shown!
